Past events 1 Nov 2017 to 31 Oct 2018

08 May 18

Innovative health service provision in residential aged care settings

Overview

Ensuring residents have access to the required health services in residential aged care settings presents a challenge for providers. To meet this need Bupa has developed the Bupa Model of Care that aims to provide proactive, present, quality medical care to residents that impacts directly upon care home clinical metrics. The engagement of medical practitioners within homes has created an environment that is positive for residents and their relatives, meaningful for practitioners, and supportive for other staff in the home. This model is now being differentiated to embrace locally relevant models of care and to include clinical teaching and aged care research within the home.

By attending this webinar you will learn more about:

Models for engaging medical practitioners within homes

Leading virtual consultations as geriatricians and other specialists as a normalised part of care in homes

Becoming involved in aged care networks across aged care facilities

Influencing future care across ageing including community, retirement living and aged care facilities

Opportunities to partner at scale for research purposes

Opportunities for medical student/registrar involvement with care in homes

Our Expert

Dr Tim Ross MBBS FRACGP

Tim is the Medical Services Director for Bupa Villages and Aged Care, Australia New Zealand. His four years with Bupa include this role and as a National Medical Director across all Bupa businesses prior to that. Having chalked up 20 years in general practice, he has just cut the cord from direct patient-facing work.

Tim graduated from Monash University in 1995 and went on to gain his FRACGP in 2000. His career has involved general practice in urban, rural and regional locations, as well as overseas in the U.K. He has spent time working for the RACGP training program and in the Department of General Practice at the University of Melbourne, bringing this back to his practice as a GP supervisor and teaching medical students. He was the tournament doctor at the Kooyong Classic tennis tournament for 11 events.

Representative work has included the General Practice Registrars Association committee, Clinical Council of the Eastern Melbourne PHN, and Board positions with AMA Victoria and AMA Federal, the Greater South Eastern Division of General Practice, and RACGP Victoria Faculty.

Clinically, the 3 Ps have always interested him: prevention, paediatrics and procedures. With his work at Bupa, he has moved to a fourth: populations, now focusing on caring for our ageing population.

In his spare time, he is always planning his next trip as a travel junkie, while trying to stay fit in his middle age by taking on triathlons and keeping up with an active family.

Webinar moderated by Dr Sandra South

Senior Policy & Research Officer AAG

In collaboration with:

Funded by the Australian Government
through the Dementia & Aged Care Services Fund

Australian Association of Gerontology acknowledges Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, to Elders past, present and emerging, and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples including members of the Stolen Generations. For further information see AAG’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ageing Advisory Group